Estimates of job losses in the near future due to automation range from 9% to 47%, and jobs themselves are becoming ever more precarious.
- Robert Skidelsky
- Project Syndicate
Should we trust the conventional economic narrative according to which machines inevitably raise workers’ living standards?
Estimates of job losses in the near future due to automation range from 9% to 47%, and…
LONDON – Surveys from round the world show that people want secure jobs.
At the same time, they have always dreamed of a life free from toil.
The “rise of the robots” has made the tension between these impulses palpable.